East Asian Cinemas Exploring Transnational Connections on Film

by Hunt, Leon; Wing-Fai, Leung

• ISBN13: 9781845116149
• ISBN10: 1845116143
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

East Asian cinema is among the most exciting and influential in the world. The popularity of Chinese martial arts films, Japanese horror, and new Korean cinema has attracted popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as arthouse, cult, blockbuster and " extreme" cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, with particular emphasis on crossovers, remakes, hybrids and co-productions. It examines changing cinematic traditions in Asia alongside the " Asianisation" of western cinema. It explores the dialogue not only between " East" and " West," but between different cinemas in the Asia Pacific. What do these trends mean for global cinema? How are co-productions and crossover films changing the nature of Hollywood and East Asian cinemas? Individual essays include case studies of Park Chan-wook, Infernal Affairs , Seven Samurai , Princess Mononoke and Kill Bill .

Author Biography

Leon Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, Brunel University.  His books include 'Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger'.  Leung Wing-Fai is Learning Development Officer (Film) at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.  Her 'Lost in Translation' column appears on the Hong Kong Express website.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Global Encounters of the First Kind
Remaking Seven Samurai in World Cinema	p. 17
Fashioning Modernity: Hollywood and the Hong Kong Musical 1957-64	p. 41
Electric Shadow of an Airplane: Hong Kong Cinema, World Cinema	p. 57
All Changing on the Eastern Front
Infernal Affairs and Kung Fu Hustle: Panacea, Placebo and Hong Kong Cinema	p. 71
Contemporary South Korean Cinema: 'National Conjunction' and 'Diversity'	p. 88
The Language of the Blockbuster: Promotion, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese Film Culture	p. 103
Made in Translation - Transnational Identities
Suriyothai Becomes Legend: National Identity as Global Currency	p. 123
Last Life in the Universe: Nationality, Technology, Authorship	p. 138
From Three Godfathers to Tokyo Godfathers: Signifying Social Change in a Transnational Context	p. 153
Transnational Noir: Style and Substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The Most Terrible Time in My Life	p. 172
How the West Was Won? Asianisation and Beyond
Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood	p. 191
Salute to Mr Vengeance!: The Making of a Transnational Auteur Park Chan-wook	p. 203
Asiaphilia, Asianisation and the Gatekeeper Auteur: Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson	p. 220
Brush and Blade in East-West Cultures	p. 237
Index	p. 253
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